Brake.



No. 815,514. PATENTED MAR. 20, 1906.

A.'L. GRAVER.

BRAKE.

APPLIOATION FILED DBO. 12, 1905.

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' ALBERT L. CRAVER, or LmwooD, NORTH CAROLINA.

BRAIKE.

Application filed December 12, 1905. Serial No. 291,446.

T at whom it may concern! I Y Be. it known that I, ALBERT L. .ORAVER, a" citizen of the United States, residing at Lin,-

wood, in thecounty of Davidson and State of North Carolina, have invented certain new and useful Im rovements in Brakes and I do hereby dec are the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention,

I such as will enable others skilled in the art to which appertainsto make and use the same.

My invention relates to brake-operating mechanism for railway-cars and its object is to provide means whereby the brakes may be manually applied by an operator when located either at the end of the car or at a point a'car, said rod having a ratchet-wheel which is normally engaged by a gravity-operated locking-lever mounted on a carroof. A combined hand wheel and gear is secured to the upper end of the rod and meshes with a smaller actuating-gear secured to a shaft,

- the ratchetwheel.

Whichis mounted on and extends longitudinally of a car and has a hand-wheel whereby the same may be 0 erated The invention a so consists'of the furthernovel features of construction and combination of arts.

In t e accompanying drawings I have shown the preferred form of my invention.

In said drawings, Figure 1 is a side eleva- 'tion of a portion of a car, showing my imtail view of the locking-lever and its bearing.

Referring to the figures by numerals of reference, 1'is a car,'having a rotatable rod 2,

.-mounted in brackets 3 on the end of the car,

and secured to this rod is a ratchet-wheel 4, the teeth of which extend downward therefrom and are adapted to be engaged by one end of a locking-lever 5, the otherend of said lever being weighted, as shownv at 6, whereby the lever is held normally in engagement with This lever isfulcrumed between ears 7, which extend upward from a Specification Letters Patent.

base-plate 8, adapted to be Patented Maker. 20, 1906.

secured on the roof 9 of a car.

Standards 10 are secured to the car-roof and constitute bearings for a horizontal shaft 1 1, having a hand-wheel '12 at one end, while a beveled gear 13 is secured to its-other end and meshes with a large gear 14, fastened to the upper end of the rod 2. Grips 15 radiate from the lower face of this gear 14, so that said gear can be utilized as a hand-Wheel, if I so desired. A rod 16 is secured to the standards l0 and serves to hold them rigidly connected, and this rod also extends to the end of the car and constitutes rod 2.

In using the mechanism herein described, the rod 2 can be rotated so as to apply the brakes of the car either by manually turning the gear 1 1 or the wheel 12. It is obvious that wheel 12 is located at a point removed a bearing forthe from the end of the car, so that the operator will be subjected, to practically no danger in applyin the brakes, as it becomes unnecess'ary for im to gobetween or near the ends of the cars. However, should it be deemed necessary or desirable forthe operator tcf) alpandthereby rotating the gear 14.. During the rotation of the rod 2 for applying the brakes the tee h of the ratchet-wheel 4 will slip over the end of lever 5; but said end will prevent the wheel from rotating in the opposite direction and will therefore hold the rod, so as to prevent the brakes from being released. Should it be desirable to release the brakes, the operator merely presses his foot under the weighted end of the lever and raises it, thereby freeing the ratchet-wheel. mechanism can be very readily connected to any form of freight-car and will be found to be very desirable.

' What I claim is The combination with a car having stand ards thereon and a horizontal shaft mounted upon the standards and extending longitudinally of the car, said shaft having a handwheel at one endand a gear at its other end; of a brace-rod rigidly connecting the standards and projecting beyond one end of the car, a rotatable rod journaled' Within the brace-rod, a gear seciired at one end of the rotatable rod and meshing with the first-men- This ti oned gear, grips radiating from the gear on the rotatable rod and constitutin a hand- In testimony whereof I have signed my Wheel, aratchet-wheel secured to the rotataname to this specification in the presence of 10 ble rod, and overlapping the top of the car a two subscribing Witnesses. bracket secured to the car-top, and a Weight- 5 ed lever pivoted Within the bracket and nor- ALBERT (JRAVER' mally engaging and locking the ratchet- Witnesses: Wheel, said lever being adapted to be operated FLETCHER R. LOFTIN, by the foot. J. W. CRAVER. 

